PostSecret: Texting While Driving
This postcard from PostSecret made me cringe with guilt.
It reads:
I rear-ended an unregistered, unlicensed, illegal immigrant.
He went to jail because I was texting and driving.
I’ve texted while driving twice and each time I thought what I was doing was so important that I needed to do it. I was wrong.
There is NO text or phone call as important as staying ALIVE. The writer of the postcard could have just as easily killed the person he hit or someone in his own car. There is a gadget available that can stop you from calling or texting while driving. It’s called Key 2 Safe Driving.
Here’s a video showing how is works:
Trying to use this to monitor your teenagers is ludicrous. Within five minutes, your teen would figure out a way to disable the Bluetooth receiver on his phone so that he wouldn’t have to deal with the problem. The only answer in this case is self-control. Not answering your phone while you’re driving is the only way to ensure that you won’t kill someone or yourself by talking on the phone while driving.
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.